Sandy Hook School Shooting and Its Anniversary There has been multiple tragedies that have shocked America over the years. Many dealing with gun violence including the Columbine Shooting in 1999, the Virginia Tech Shooting in 2007, and the Umpqua Community College School Shooting in 2015. These tragedies we still look back on and remember those that were lost and those that survived. The shooting at Sandy Hook School is the one that recently had an anniversary. Three years ago on a normal Monday morning a man by the name of Adam Lanza shot his mother, Nancy Lanza. Upon approaching the school doors he used an assault weapon to shoot a way into the entrance door of the school. Principal Dawn Lafferty Hochsprung, earlier that year, installed …show more content…
Students and faculty were then escorted away from the building and to a close-by firehouse. As announcements of the shooting surged through the town, panicked parents advanced to the firehouse. By the time night had descended, a mass of parents and family members had gathered within the firehouse. It became a congregation for people who have lost loved ones (Shooting). Monday, December 14, 2015 marked the third anniversary of the Sandy Hook school shooting. This was the first year that the anniversary landed on a school day, and the new superintendent had commented that it would be a full day of learning. The principals of the high school and middle school noted the significance of the day and hosted a moment of silence. However the lower-grade student discussed the incident with their parents or guardian. Though the town has made efforts for normalcy, they are still a long way from fully recovering from the loss. Mental health is still in high demand within the walls of Sandy Hook due to the amount of students who lost brothers or sisters and those that were there the day of the shooting. A foundation run by the PTA has given the school a grant of $500,000 to continue providing mental health care. The new superintendent, Joseph Erardi Jr., is encouraging school officials nationwide to go over safety procedures. He also commented that the nation remember that Newton is still
After her parents looked at what she had written, they got a glimpse into her relationship with God. April 20, 1999 began as a regular day. By the end of the day however, a tragedy that shocked the nation occurred. Two senior students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, shot and killed 12 students and one teacher and then took their own lives.
The Columbine shooting is known as to be one of the worst school shootings that has ever happened in history. This shooting took place in a little town in Colorado called Littleton. The two shooters were Eric Harris, and Dylan Klebold and they decided to start a school shooting on April 20,1999, and decided they were going to shoot up the whole school with guns, and bombs. Thirteen people were shot, and killed by the two shooters.
One hundred and twenty two school shootings have happened since the Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting. Twelve of the school shootings were in elementary, nine were in middle schools, thirty nine
After the tragic and cold-hearted school killings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, in Newtown, Connecticut, 20 children and 6 adult staff members were fatally shot. The number of school shootings within the past few decades has risen dramatically, which is just not acceptable. How can anyone accept the thoughtless cruelty with these young precious lives being treated like they are replaceable?
19 years ago, the Columbine School Shooting. 11 years ago, Sandy Hook elementary school shooting. 6 years ago, the Virginia Tech shooting. Just last year, the Las Vegas shooting that killed 58 and harmed hundreds other. Just last month, the Stoneman Douglas high school shooting, that killed 17 and emotionally and physically harmed dozens more.
School Shootings: How We All Miss the Point... The aftermath of a school shooting is tragic, depressing, and causes hatred for the lives lost and the person who took them. Everyone, especially the media, tries to interpret why the shooter killed their victims, or why they felt the need to end others’ lives and their own. How We All Miss the Point on School Shootings, by Mark Manson, explains what and why these mass shootings happen. He starts by using examples of shootings and the murderer’s past.
Last friday, a tragedy happened in the parking lot of Trey Community College in Springfield, Kentucky. What seemed to be an average morning turned into a scene from a horror movie. On this seemingly regular Friday morning, a sophomore student, Isaiah Teller, took out a gun and fired four shots at his fellow students, and then one at himself. Teller’s mother, Emily Teller, says that this may have been avoided, “He never really liked people. Was always anti-social.”
But these two boys went to their own high school with a plan for a bombing, when that bombing failed they turned to an unplanned shooting that killed twelve students, one teacher and injured twenty people. April 20th. Seems like a normal sunny day in April. But in 1999 on this day, the events of Columbine happened. A day that everyone in Littleton will always remember.
On April 10th, 2017, a gunman walked into an elementary school classroom and opened fire. Killing a total of four people, two students, an adult, and the gunman himself. What makes this case strange is who the gunman was after. On Monday, Cedric Anderson walked into his wife’s, Karen Smith, special needs classroom. Smith had around fifteen special needs children in the classroom at the time when Anderson opened fired.
Another mass shooting story is the mass shooting of Columbine High School. According to an article posted by Jennifer Rosenberg on about.com, Columbine High School is located in Littleton, Colorado. This incident took place on April 20th of 1999. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris were the two high school aged boys that committed this horrific act. The boys planned to kill hundreds of their peers using guns, knives and bombs.
So with all these kids dying wouldn't you agree that we need better mental health support, so we can prevent all these shootings? I believe that if we had good and strong mental health support services in the USA then tragic events like Columbine H.S. & Sandy Hook would probably never happen. That is why I am supporting for the USA to talk more about how to create more mental health support programs to help prevent gun violence events. Bibliography Works Cited CNN Library "Columbine High School Shootings Fast Facts" CNN.com (Updated April 5, 2017) (Internet) (http://www.CNN.com/2013/09/18/us/columbine-high-school-shootings-fast-facts) Culp-Ressler, Tara "10,000 Kids Are Injured Or Killed By Guns Each Year In The U.S." Pediatrics Think Progress (2014) (Internet) (https://thinkprogress.org/10-000-kids-are-injured-or-killed-by-guns-each-year-in-the-u-s-bfb1e3bf70dc)
A nonprofit group that attempts to prevent gun violence called “Everytown for Gun Safety,” released a statement about school shootings. The organization claimed that the school shooting at “[Marjory Stoneman Douglas High] is the 18th school shooting in the U.S. in 2018.’” (Cox and Rich). In less than three months, there have been eighteen school shootings. This shows that schools are no longer a safe environment.
On April 20, 1999, two disturbed teenage boys Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris began a killing rampage at Columbine High School in the suburban town of Littleton, Colorado. This was considered one of the worst school shootings to occur at that time. In the morning of April 20, before noon, the two juveniles had killed 13 people to include 12 students and 1 teacher; they also wounded another 23 people before turning the guns on themselves. This event would change the theories as to why school shootings would occur. (History)
These acts of violence make school a place of fear rather than a place of safety. When did school become a place to worry and feel unsafe? Not only that but this event is a vicious cycle and as of right now it is unable to be contained. The news stories on the media of these events may be aimed to show people how tragic they are, but the shooters take the news stories as inspirations and school shootings continue to be on the rise.
School shootings are startling to consider, however there are approaches to help keep the deaths from consistently happening once more. The first known school shooting was at the Texas Tower at the University of Texas in 1966 where Charles Whitman shot and slaughtered 16 individuals while harming 31 others. Since then there has been over 1,000 deaths due to school shootings. There is certainly an issue with school brutality today. The most recent three years have demonstrated to us that brutality in our schools society is more typical today than ever previously.